CENTRAL STATISTICAL ADMINISTRATION

The resolutions of the latest Congress of Soviets unconditionally oblige the C.S.A. to undertake statistical study of the work of our Soviet institutions, the number of employees, etc.

7.

Selection, for study, of a small number of typical enterprises (factories, sovkhozes) and institutions: (a) the best — model ones; (b) average; and (c) the worst.

Reduce everything else, except these 7 §§.

I request that you communicate to me your conclusion both on the substance and on the timeframe for working out the program of work.

Chairman Lenin.

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NOTE TO SECRETARIES.

Fotieva or Glässer.

19/VIII [1921]

I request that you send the original, making 4 copies and return it to me together with a copy of my letter to Popov from 16(?)/VIII.¹

Lenin.

¹ Lenin is referring to a letter from P. I. Popov dated August 19, in which Popov announced his resignation (see below), and to his own letter to P. I. Popov of August 16 (see p. 216 of the Collection). Lenin instructed G. M. Krzhizhanovsky to forward Popov's letter (see p. 224 of the Collection).

WRITTEN NOTE TO P. I. POPOV.

*

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August 20 [1921]

Comrade Popov,

I cannot accept your resignation.

My directives, as you are of course aware, may be appealed by you, but an appeal does not suspend the necessity of their execution. I request that you send me a brief enumeration...

* Printed from a typed copy. Ed.